“She got up and he saw the skin of her thigh for a moment above the artificial silk, and a prick of sexual desire disturbed him like a sickness. That was what happened to a man in the end: the stuff...”

“You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.”

“A brain was only capable of what it could conceive, and it couldn't conceive what it had never experienced”

“I know one thing you don't. I know the difference between Right and Wrong. They didn't teach you that at school.'Rose didn't answer the woman was quite right: the two words meant nothing to her. Th...”

“But you do believe, dont you," Rose implored him, "you think its true?" "Of course its true," the Boy said. "What else could there be?" he went scornfully on. "Why," he said, "its the only thing th...”

“You cant conceive, my child, nor can I or anyone the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.”

“I do not love men: I love what devours them.”

“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.”

“Part of his mind was screaming, but it was a distant one and easy to ignore.”

“Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance”

“My biggest fear, even now, is that I will hear Jesus' words and walk away, content to settle for less than radical obedience to Him.”

“Through the present moment, you have access to the power of life itself, that which has traditionally been called "God." As soon as you turn away from it, God ceases to be a reality in your life, a...”